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Shrey Jain, Karen Easterbrook and E. Glen Weyl Generative foundation models (opens in new tab) (GFMs) like GPT-4 will transform human productivity. Yet the astonishing capabilities of these models will also strain many social institutions, including the ways we communicate…
In the news | COMPLEXITY podcast
Plurality, Governance, and Decentralized Society
This week on the show we dip back into our sub-series on SFI’s Emergent Political Economies research theme with a trialogue featuring Microsoft Research Lead Glen Weyl (founder of RadicalXChange and founder-chair of The Plurality Institute), and SFI Resident Professor…
In the news | Emprendedor.com
Startups latinas compiten para reforzar la democracia en el Tech4democracy
El próximo lunes 10 de octubre se llevará a cabo en la Universidad de los Andes el Latin America’s Tech4democracy Venture Day, una iniciativa de IE University y el Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos para promover negocios donde la…
In the news | AméricaEconomía.com
Soluciones de startups latinoamericanas compiten para reforzar la democracia en Tech4democracy Venture Day Latinoamérica
Bogotá. El próximo lunes 10 de octubre tendrá lugar en la Universidad de los Andes, el Tech4democracy Venture Day Latinoamérica, una iniciativa de IE University y el departamento de Estado de los Estados Unidos que buscar impulsar aquellos emprendimientos cuya…
In the news | Tech Policy Press
Contending for Democracy on Social Media and Beyond
Today, the futures of both democracy and the internet lie at crossroads. These futures are intertwined in complex and critical ways, with each threatened from within, and by one another. While debates over the extent of the internet’s contributions to…
In the news | Ford Foundation
Reconceiving the Missing Layers of the Internet for a More Just Future
The internet is among the most complex systems ever built, with a sprawling digital infrastructure of millions of interconnected devices and networks that, together, enable us to connect and communicate with one another around the world in real time. The…
In the news | The Washington Post
Crypto pulled off its big upgrade. Even larger ambitions await.
The platform that hosts many of the world’s NFT and cryptocurrency trades just completed one of the trickiest upgrades in modern technology. Now come the really big goals. Earlier this week, ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin and his team successfully finished…
In the news | Radical Xchange
Plurality: Technology for Collaborative Diversity and Democracy
We are about to embark on a journey and hope you will join us. Over the past half decade we have, in collaboration with so many of you, been developing an alternative to the usual narratives about the future of…
In the news | BBC
Project Origin: Securing Trust in Media
Project Origin is part of a wide collaboration between media and tech organisations to develop signals that can be tied to media content to allow audiences to determine where content has come from and check for any manipulation or changes…